This hotel is in the enviable position of having little competition in the immediate area, if it had any it wouldnt survive without major investment.
It is a throwback to the seventies and whereas I do enjoy period hotels unfortunately the seventies (at the moment) dont qualify as a great period.
While ever there are people who are prepared to put up with a low quality offering and call it "rustic" hotels like this will continue to be, they dont deserve to.
The room was £138 inc breakfast, I would expect to pay that in central london for a much better quality of accommodation, for a poor hotel in the provinces this was just far too much.
On leaving we noticed a chain motel about 6-10 miles away, whilst they are not my first choice in this case we would have been in better accommodation and had approx £90 left over !!
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Management Response
runnerUk, General Manager
(Management representative)
4 Mar 2008
I am sorry that you did not like the style of our hotel.
We are a 'tudor' hotel with traditional antique furniture and tapestries. I am unsure why you would relate our style to the 'seventies.'
Continual investment is made to combine the charm of the tudor style with all the modern conveniences one would expect from a modern hotel. All our rooms are individual with their own character, and although perhaps not to your taste, they are elegantly furnished.
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